Friday afternoon Apple links, Friday before WWDC ’08 edition

This Friday's Apple links include an official quote from Woz about his breakup …

Happy Friday! We're getting ready to head out to San Francisco this weekend and cover the WWDC keynote live for you on the front page of Ars. Be sure to check there on Monday morning for all the details! For now, here are a few links to hold you over.

Comedienne Kathy Griffin recently spoke on the Today Show (discussed at Jezebel) about her breakup with Apple playboy Steve Wozniak. Woz, however, has an official counter to all of this. "Truth is, she was for Hillary Clinton and I was for Barack Obama," he told Ars Technica this morning. "You can quote me on that."

Some of you may have seen mentions of the iClooly this week, which appears to be a miniature iMac-like stand for your iPhone or iPod touch. The iClooly essentially turns your iDevice into a little iMac of its own, except you can rotate the screen around to your liking (some of us wish we could do that on our iMacs too).

The furor ahead of next week's WWDC is reaching new levels of insanity. Forbes has apparently decided to become the paparazzi this week and stake out a Quanta shipping facility and saw piles of "unmarked boxes" sitting alongside boxes for iMacs and other Apple goodies. The site even has a slideshow, for you voyeurs in the crowd.

Here's some very exciting, almost pee-in-your-pants-inducing news: Apple has updated Canon and Brother printer drivers for Mac OS X. They won't show up in your Software Update unless you have printers from those companies installed, but you can grab individual package downloads from Apple's website.

Although the presence of Macs in businesses is increasing, some of Apple's software—namely, iWork—is nearly nonexistent. Apple hopes to change that, and has posted an online seminar about using iWork for Business. Registration to watch the 30-minute video is free, so if you're dying to get your office off of Microsoft's Office, you might want to check it out.

ifoAppleStore has the scoop on Apple apparently attempting to steal exemplary employees from other retail stores. Recruiters are going around to other companies and handing out business-card-sized cards that read "You're amazing. We should talk." Is Apple trying to ramp up, or is the company just trying to bump up the quality of its retail presence?